IDEAS — Amy Jones, EdM, MSW

Amy Jones 4/22/11 Amy Jones 4/22/11

Vanity or sanity?: Getting botox might make it hard for your kids to attach to you. Uh oh!

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Amy Jones 4/21/11 Amy Jones 4/21/11

Are women really more anxious than men? Eventually, yes.
Parents coddle girls who cry after a painful scrape but tell boys to suck it up, and this formative link between emotional outbursts and kisses from mom predisposes girls to react to unpleasan…

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Amy Jones 4/18/11 Amy Jones 4/18/11

a scientific exploration of why certain music makes us emotional and other music doesn’t in the NYT

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Amy Jones 4/18/11 Amy Jones 4/18/11

“Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.”

-Neuroscientist David Eagleman cites Voltaire while contemplating God in New Scientist

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Amy Jones 4/18/11 Amy Jones 4/18/11

When something threatens your life, this area seems to kick into overdrive, recording every last detail of the experience. The more detailed the memory, the longer the moment seems to last. “This explains why we think that time speeds up when we gro…

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Amy Jones 4/16/11 Amy Jones 4/16/11

the adolescent brain is wired to take “stupid” risks

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Amy Jones 4/15/11 Amy Jones 4/15/11

“At this point in my existence, I cannot imagine leading a normal life without both taking lithium and having had the benefits of psychotherapy. Lithium prevents my seductive but disastrous highs, diminishes my depressions, clears out the wool…

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Amy Jones 4/15/11 Amy Jones 4/15/11

adolescents who read are happier

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Amy Jones 4/15/11 Amy Jones 4/15/11

adolescents who read are less depressed

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Amy Jones 4/13/11 Amy Jones 4/13/11

study connects allergies and depression

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Amy Jones 4/12/11 Amy Jones 4/12/11

scientists dream of discovering the meaning of our dreams in Scientific American

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Amy Jones 4/10/11 Amy Jones 4/10/11

the flip side of the coin and evolution
“ I felt no sense that I carried a handicap that would render my efforts futile should I again face deep trouble. In fact, I felt a heightened sense of agency. Anything and everything I did to improve my…

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Amy Jones 4/10/11 Amy Jones 4/10/11

Gary Greenberg explores the difficulty with diagnosing mental illness in Wired

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Amy Jones 4/10/11 Amy Jones 4/10/11

Findings from The Longevity Project in The Atlantic: "It may not directly sicken or shorten the life of the person experiencing the unhappiness. But it apparently can be toxic for people who have to live with that unhappy person.“
Megan F…

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Amy Jones 4/9/11 Amy Jones 4/9/11

“When AA members stand up and share their emotionally searing tales of lost weekends, ruined relationships, and other liquor-fueled low points, they develop new levels of self-awareness. And that process may help reinvigorate the prefrontal co…

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Amy Jones 4/9/11 Amy Jones 4/9/11

“Getting enough sleep, on a regular cycle, may make us a better version of ourselves.”
Toni Frisell

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Amy Jones 4/7/11 Amy Jones 4/7/11

Niobe Way talks with The New Yorker about the danger of the loss of intimate friendships between boys.

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Amy Jones 4/6/11 Amy Jones 4/6/11

“If the brooding, solitary Andie played by Ringwald in "Pretty in Pink” were in high school in 2009, it’s hard to imagine she wouldn’t be a candidate for anti-depression therapy. Likewise, if “The Breakfast Club,&r…

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Amy Jones 4/6/11 Amy Jones 4/6/11

I long ago abandoned the notion of a life without storms, or a world without dry and killing seasons. Life is too complicated, too constantly changing, to be anything but what it is. And I am, by nature, too mercurial to be anything but deeply wary …

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Amy Jones 4/6/11 Amy Jones 4/6/11

even more on procrastination:
the importance of goofing off at work in The New Yorker
“The basic insight—that giving people some respite from difficult tasks, along with the chance to let their minds wander, will make them more productive- rem…

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